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The fire department needed 37 vehicles and 110 firefighters to douse the blaze, which caused approximately $1 million in damage.

Hillier says he was on his way home from a party early Monday morning when he noticed “a great deal of commotion around my place.” He says the whole area was filled with smoke, so “I had to wear my own gas mask.”

He set up his camera on his rooftop, which would capture Toronto Fire fighting the blaze from 2 a.m. to 6:30 a.m.

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